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Microsoft-backed extension aims to address open source database's perceived weaknesses A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL's weaknesses as an analytics database....

Notification omits a number of key details Popular flight-tracking app FlightAware has admitted that it was exposing a bunch of users' data for more than three years....

Taiwanese IT infrastructure provider claims platform ghosted it X is facing yet another legal case in the shape of a breach of contract claim from IT infrastructure provider Wiwynn over non-payment for $120 million in components it procured for the Elon Musk-owned biz....

Digital athletes enjoy positive effects in Japan study, but too much screentime sees diminishing returns A study of nearly 100,000 people in Japan has found that gaming may be good for the player's mental health, contrary to the prevailing narrative around the popular pastime....

Enterprise-level long-term stability, but a little friendlier Oreon Lime R2 blends AlmaLinux with a bunch of extra tools and repositories, plus some helpful tweaks for the GNOME desktop. It's sort of akin to an LTS version of Fedora 34....

First stage destroyed during hot fire in Scotland A hot-fire test of Rocket Factory Augsburg's RFA One ended in explosion at Scotland's SaxaVord spaceport....

Your country needs you... to quit it with all those sick days UK government believes its proposed "right to switch off" will bring crucial economic and productivity benefits to the country, while also improving the well-being of workers....

Removing security services not always the best way to tackle problematic content Interview Cloudflare wants harmonization of all the regulation and compliance frameworks springing up around the world, according to the networking service provider's deputy chief legal officer and global head of public policy, Alissa Starzak....

Europe's largest local authority canceled expected savings baked into financial plans The total cost of Birmingham City Council's Oracle implementation disaster is set to reach 216.5 million ($280.4 million) by April 2026, according to a new audit report....

Her legacy hinges on her successor - will they double down? Europe's top competition cop, Margrethe Vestager, will reportedly be stepping down later this year, a development certain to please the US tech firms she called to the carpet....

Political stirrer Roger Stone may have been a weak link after personal emails cracked US authorities have named Iran as the likely source of a recent attack on the campaign of the US Republican Party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump....

Minister issues denial - it's just an upgrade to the 'web-management system' Industry group Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT (P@SHA) last week accused the Pakistan government late last week of implementing a China-style internet firewall - a claim the nation's IT minister denied over the weekend....

Lenovo also cashes in on AI demand, without being able to turn it into profit Demand for cloudy CPUs has levelled out at top Chinese clouds Alibaba and Tencent, whose customers increasingly want GPUs instead....

Plus a further 200 delays, rockstars knocked off stage ... all on a holiday weekend Thirty-six flights were cancelled at Japan's New Chitose airport on Saturday after a pair of scissors went missing....

Researchers find it's possible to downgrade authentication checks, and shabby token refresh policies Digital wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal can be used to conduct transactions using stolen and cancelled payment cards, according to academic security researchers....

That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it? While enterprises struggle to quantify the return on investment of AI, the technology continues to show promise in bolstering weather forecasting and climate models....

12 on X and one on Instagram caught in the crackdown OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian crew suspected of spreading fake news on social media sites about the upcoming US presidential campaign....

Windows giant tells Cisco Talos it isn't fixing them Cisco Talos says eight vulnerabilities in Microsoft's macOS apps could be abused by nefarious types to record video and sound from a user's device, access sensitive data, log user input, and escalate privileges....

Automaker claims it has to make bold choices' General Motors (GM) is cutting more than 1,000 salaried positions worldwide in its software and services division, with the majority based in the US....

Pretending you're a server won't stop the hardware police Microsoft has finally patched a workaround exploited by users seeking an upgrade path for Windows 11 that dodged the company's hardware requirements....

Founder's side-project is letting in water News is bubbling up both from the Gentoo project and its successor, the tellingly named "Funtoo" - what Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins did next....

Bad news for impatient LTS users, balanced out by tweaked policy The launch date for the next Ubuntu point release is being pushed back, but there's a silver lining: Canonical is promising fresher kernels in future builds....

Autonomy founder's wife rescued, daughter and others unaccounted for Updated Mike Lynch, often dubbed the UK's answer to Bill Gates, is missing after his luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily this morning....

Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher The data broker at the center of what may become one of the more significant breaches of the year is telling officials that just 1.3 million people were affected....

AI's thirst for power is only making things worse Concerns over the environmental impact of datacenters in the US state of Virginia are being raised again amid claims their water consumption has stepped up by almost two-thirds since 2019, and AI could make it worse....

Gravity assist flybys planned for tonight and tomorrow The European Space Agency's Juice probe is to thread the needle this week with a first for a space mission - swings around the Moon and Earth that will result in the spacecraft coming approximately 700 km from the lunar surface....

Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software CockroachDB, the distributed transactional system with a mostly PostgreSQL compatible front end, plans to retire its free open source "Core" product in favor of a new Enterprise licensing structure for self-hosted users....

Company continues to investigate root cause Brighton-based ISP and hosting provider Fastnet has emerged from a trying week which involved battling VMware/Broadcom tech issues that have downed a number of its customers' websites....

Innovation dead for twenty years? Tell that to 2004 Opinion Want a good time on stage, but you're not a performance artist? Surprisingly easy. Fill a hall with an audience of your peers, tell them the world's gone to hell in a handcart, then that they're the only ones who can fix it. You'll feel the love. Guaranteed....

Nobody really needs more than that, right? Almost a year after Raspberry Pi 5 debuted, a cheaper 2 GB version has appeared for users that want to save a little cash or for whom 4 or 8 GB was just slightly excessive....

Debugging software on the waterfront is a strangely dangerous task Who, Me? Welcome once more, dear reader, to Who, Me? in which Reg readers like your good self attempt to soften the blow of the working week with tales of techie misadventure....

The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage - and prove it's possible Japanese space debris cleaning outfit Astroscale revealed on Monday that it will enter a 12,000 million ($81.4 million) five-year contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to remove the upper stage of the space org's H-IIA rocket from orbit using a newly developed satellite....

Plus: China's richest man used to work for Google; Singtel profit jumps; most APAC governments don't have AI governance policies, and more ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese semiconductor equipment manufacturer Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMMEC) is challenging its inclusion on a US blacklist for alleged ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), according to numerous reports....

Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more in brief Malware that kills endpoint detection and response (EDR) software has been spotted on the scene and, given it's deploying RansomHub, it could soon be prolific....

Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue Hands-on Code assistants have gained considerable attention as an early use case for generative AI - especially following the launch of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. But, if you don't relish the idea of letting Microsoft loose on your code or paying $10/month for the privilege, you can always build your own....

Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Hands On Purveyor of optics Beaverlab has unveiled its an inexpensive telescope for wannabe star-gazers: the Finder TW2....

But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue Epic Games, booted from Apple's walled garden four years ago for crimes against App Store policy, has built its own digital store for customers in Europe....

Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours' The Pentagon's newest toy isn't a fancy warfighting machine - it's a combined supercomputer and rapid response laboratory (RRL) dedicated to beefing up the US's biodefenses....

And as Anthropic boss reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things' Legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) software in California has been revised in response to industry discontent with the bill, which awaits a State Assembly vote later this month....

Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there A Florida firm has all but confirmed that millions of people's sensitive personal info was stolen from it by cybercriminals and publicly leaked....

Another $3B in loans also on the table to support $18B foundry enlargement Texas Instruments is set to receive up to $1.6 billion and as much as $3 billion in loans from good-old Uncle Sam under the CHIPS and Science Act, the US Commerce Department announced on Friday....

Attacker locked out all staff for four days The cryptocurrency offshoot of reality TV and entrepreneurship show Unicorn Hunters has confirmed that an unknown attacker compromised its G-Suite, locking all staff out of their accounts....

Arrives in the Canary Channel and updated via the Microsoft Store Build 27686 of Windows 11 is out for Canary Channel Windows Insiders including the Sandbox Client preview, a fix for a potentially alarming registry issue and a warning for owners of Copilot+ PCs....

Rivals claim signal waiver would interfere with terrestrial networks Starlink's rivals in the satellite phone service race are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject its request for a waiver relating to out-of-band emission limits on signals, claiming this would cause interference with terrestrial cell networks....

Oracle of Omaha's exit follows revenue growth shortfall, CEO switch, and customer data leak Berkshire Hathaway has offloaded nearly $1 billion in Snowflake stock as it exits the former IPO chart-smashing cloud data warehousing and analytics specialist....

Entrepreneur vows to keep on buffering Kim Dotcom, founder and CEO of defunct file hosting service Megaupload, revealed this week that his long-fought extradition to the United States was finally approved....

There can be only one ... annoying management technique Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has penned a blog that gives further insight into the inner workings of the software titan under Bill Gates's leadership....

Future of low carbon sustainable tech? Not so fast, this is still a trial and only for backup power Equinix is moving forward with trials of fuel cell technology as an alternative backup power source, revealing it has a demonstration unit at one of its facilities in Dublin, Ireland....

Controversial payment systems set for another lease of life The UK's government department for farming and the environment is offering up to 27 million to keep its controversial legacy farm payments systems running for another three years as it develops a replacement....

BVLOS operations to modernize airspace The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved six new trials to test the use of drones in deliveries, inspections and emergency services, including one from e-commerce megabiz Amazon....